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Bush Stands By Space PlanWashington, (UPI) July 26, 2004
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First Interceptor Emplaced In Alaska Silo
Dulles VA (SPX) Jul 26, 2004Orbital Sciences Corporation announced that it supplied the first interceptor boost vehicle for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Ground-based Midcourse Defense system that was installed into an underground silo at Fort Greely, Alaska yesterday, July 22, 2004. Sending A Messenger To Mercury 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2004Messenger, NASA's first mission to the planet Mercury in 30 years, is scheduled for launch on August 2. Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) carries seven scientific instruments that will provide images of the entire planet, as well as information on the composition of Mercury's crust, core, and polar materials, its geologic history, and the nature of its thin atmosphere and active magnetosphere. |
Opportunity Lives High Off The Hog
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2004Opportunity continued its exploration of "Endurance Crater" the past five sols, and is now roughly 11 meters (about 36 feet) into the crater. The only drive during this period was on sol 171, when the rover turned around, backed down across the slope, then turned towards a feature called "Razorback." Spirit Investigates Wooly Patch 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2004On sol 194, Spirit took a large microscopic imager mosaic, consisting of 34 images at multiple positions, of a target called "Sabre" on an outcrop rock called "Wooly Patch." This was followed by a two-hour reading by the Moessbauer spectrometer and an overnight, seven-hour reading by the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. |
NASA Approves New Design For Shuttle External Tank Fitting
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 27, 2004NASA is moving ahead with plans to redesign a part of the Space Shuttle external fuel tank that investigators believe played a critical role in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, with manufacturing set to start on an improved bipod fitting. |
First GPS Navigator Approved For Precision Approach
Oshkosh WI (SPX) Jul 27, 2004Garmin International, a unit of Garmin Ltd, Monday introduced the GNS 480 at the 2004 EAA AirVenture Fly-In, marking the company's latest addition to its popular line of integrated panel-mount avionics. The GNS 480 will be positioned between the GNS 430 and GNS 530. |
Quickstep Signs European Deal For Composites Process Development
Sydney (SPX) Jul 21, 2004Australian advanced materials group Quickstep Technologies Pty Ltd has taken a key step in the commercialisation of its proprietary composites manufacturing process, securing a three-way development deal in the UK. US Army Invites STARA To Demonstrate New Parachute Technology For NATO 
Mesa AZ (SPX) Jul 27, 2004STARA Technologies, a leading developer of miniature guided parachute systems, has been invited to demonstrate the capabilities of their GNAT system for NATO in the southwestern French town of Monte de Marsan. |
US-Funded Alhurra Television Wins Over Viewers In Iraq
Springfield VA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004A new survey of Iraq conducted by Oxford Research International shows that 61 percent of Iraqi adults had watched the new US-funded Arabic language TV channel Alhurra (Arabic for "The Free One") in the previous week. NRTC To Provide Broadband Internet Via WildBlue 
Herndon VA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004The successful launch of the WildBlue Anik F2 satellite at 8:44 p.m. EDT on July 17, 2004, moves the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) and its members one step closer to offering satellite broadband Internet services virtually anywhere in the continental United States. |
NSF Builds 21 Tesla Superconducting Magnet
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Jul 27, 2004The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida, has achieved another world record in magnet development with the successful testing of its 21.1 Tesla, superconducting, ultra-wide bore, NMR magnet. Tegal Awarded Two Key Patents For Nano Layer Deposition 
Petaluma CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2004Tegal Corporation Thursday announced that it has been granted United States Patents, No. 6,689,220 and 6,756,318, which enable nano layer deposition (NLD) of conformal thin films for barrier, copper seed and high-K dielectric applications in advanced microprocessor and memory device production. |
China, ESA Share Results Of First Double Star
Taiyuan (XNA) Jul 27, 2004China and the European Space Agency (ESA) have shared "very valuable" information acquired from the Probe No. 1, the first satellite of the Sino-ESA Double Star Project, which entered into the orbit last December, according to the Space Science and Application Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Climate: The Vanishing Solar Factor 
Boulder CO (UPI) Jul 26, 2004It should be no mystery to anyone who has ever been outdoors that the sun influences the climate. But recent scientific evidence indicates solar forcing of climate change actually may be less than previously thought. |
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